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Pakistan: Small Declines in Population Growth and Fertility Rate
JAMILA ACHAKZAI WRITES IN THE NEWS: The country’s population growth, crude birth, fertility and infant mortality rates have improved over the last one-year with the government attributing the...
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Pakistan Opinion: Our Population Time Bomb
ZUBEIDA MUSTAFA WRITES IN THE NEWSPAPER DAWN ON PAKISTAN’S HIGH FERTILITY RATE. Pakistan’s population is now almost 180 million. According to a UN report published in 2010, the country’s total...
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Pakistan’s Looming Water Crisis
NATE BERG WRITES IN THE ATLANTIC CITIES: Between 2011 and 2012, the urban population of Pakistan grew by more than 2.2 million people. The country’s urban residents now make up 38 percent of its total...
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How many Africans will have access to electricity by 2050? According to the World Bank’s latest figures, 64.6% of the population of sub-Saharan Africa lacked access to electricity in 2012, or a total...
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Changing demographics and the commodities crash have slowed down the development of poorer countries. Perhaps it all started with a turn in China’s demographics. Demand growth for commodities has...
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